Phyllis Diller Quotes

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.